Are you not fed up with Americans over using the word "awesome"
Watch Oprah and Ricki and everybody says "awesome" and just look at the answers americans give in this site isnt it just "awesome".
Look it up and the meanings are,
1. CAUSING FEELINGS OF GREAT ADMIRATION, RESPECT OR FEAR.
2. US INFORMAL FOR EXTREMELY GOOD.
Its such a bad word to use and is ambigous. Why cant they describe what they feel instead of limiting everything to being just "awesome". It really annoys me to hear or read its wrecking my head.
Tell me what you think
2006-08-02 10:37:01 · 39 answers · asked by Gar 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I think "Goofed" should be the new awesome its such a better word and represents the American Philosophy. As in Bush is so "GOOFED"
2006-08-02 10:54:25 · update #1
I dont generally watch American chat shows but its the nearest thing I have to listening to the American public as i live in Ireland.
2006-08-02 10:58:19 · update #2
that's awesome
2006-08-02 10:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
ur not so awesome becuz the word awesome is awesome so quit bein not awesome and learn to be awesome..................lol i'm just kiddin. i don't use the word awesome, i use great or cool or nice or tight or cute or somethin like that. it's just how a lot of Americans i guess talk. y do the people in Australia say mate? becuz that's the way they talk, it's their language.
edit: and ricki lake(who cares about her) and oprah do not represent all of America. they're are two tiny people in this big society. people speak different so just get over it.
2006-08-02 10:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Personally I support any person extending their vocabulary and using alternatives such as:
astonishing
breathtaking
amazing
formidable
impressive
magnificent
majestic
over-whelming
stunning
wonderful
You never know Gar - this could be the turning point in the American lexicon!
2006-08-02 10:52:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well even the president used it as in Shock and Awe to name the first offense into Iraq .Its an over used word but I find nothing wrong with it,its just used as slang for cool .which is slang, for right on which was slang for .....well you get the idea
to the British bus boy/porter/bell hop in Cancun
Are you trying to say there are not a lot of uneducated fat lardy Brits thats really funny.
Just look around there are lots of fat uneducated people in England...You my friend are a bigot..........
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2016-12-10 20:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not worry so much for what the americans say.....if you don't like how they speak, why you watch their TV programs ?. Probably the Americans are fed up to hear the Britts talking in a particular way. Have you think about that?
2006-08-02 10:50:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm an american and you're right. And I expect to get more thumbs down than up, or no thumbs at all, as any other anti aw... well..you know the word, is getting in this comment section. Being a lemming is so...lemming.
2014-11-02 20:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do stupid people ask stupid questions about "Americans" like they are 1 single entity and also base their veiw of "Americans" on what Ricki lake and Oprah say? Those are two old ugly fat rich windbags that fat housewives watch from their couches all day. They hardly represent "Americans."
2006-08-02 10:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by cannon1977 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like you need to stop watching Oprah and Ricki and move overseas (if you currenlty live in America).
You'll probably need to stop emailing americans, watching movies, american TV, and all other interactions.
That will take care of your problem.
....o....or you could just get over it and realize that you're pet pieve is not shared by most Americans.
2006-08-02 10:42:20 · answer #9 · answered by Ender 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I'm with you on that!
It's just so WIDELY used it's almost become meaningless.
A new jumper or the discovery of life on another planet would presumably both be described as "awesome".
There are a multitude of words to meaningfully convey how you feel about something - it's such a shame not to use them.
2006-08-02 10:43:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I've used it but Im really starting to hate the word.
My mother is a British citizen still though she has lived in this country 30+ years.
She hates the word
2006-08-02 10:43:13 · answer #11 · answered by tardis1977 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋